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Haven't tried Starrcade '84 but I still get kicked off the Network when I try to watch WrestleMania Rewind. All the other VOD stuff seemed to work fine this morning. Didn't watch NXT last night but judging by the technical issues, I'm hoping that they get all of this stuff fixed for WrestleMania.

Checked some stuff last night and this morning on the Roku. Bash at the Beach '99 crapped out after about three minutes this morning. Last night, Mania 7 stopped as Willie Nelson started warbling "America the Beautiful". Mania 8 seemed to have no issues on the Roku last night and I watched the MSG show from '91 on my Kindle Fire with zero issues last night. I did have an email from WWE this morning stating that they are doing maintenance to the on-demand section and that it would be unavailable at certain points while they complete the maintenance. The email also mentioned that the maintenance should be complete tomorrow morning. Hoping that the "maintenance" they are talking about is related to the Roku.

Same here.

I'm still having VOD issues on the Roku 3. A video will start and play for a few minutes and then just stop and Roku will pop-up with an error that either says "server timeout" or "unexpected socket". Can't access GAB '91 at all. Also, I'll select some videos (WrestleMania Rewind for example) and instead of playing, it'll go back to the main Roku channel menu. I've rebooted the Roku too. Anyone know what might be causing those issues on Roku?

Watched some more of the old Best of the WWF Vol. 4 from Coliseum Video. Saw a random dude battle royal from the spectrum that was won by Tony Atlas on a coin flip.

I believe the match you are referring to is the Ken Shamrock/Steve Blackman match from Fully Loaded '99.

You can feel free to post a link to the blog Mando and I write at ... http://neverhandover.blogspot.com

As far as classic stuff, I remember seeing an ECW on TNN episode that was filmed in the middle of a music hall that had a pretty unique look. Also, if you haven't seen them, the WCW Worldwide episodes that they filmed outdoors in 1994 were a hoot.

From my experience seeing live shows in the SW Ohio area, the best building for wrestling is the Nutter Center in Dayton. It's a small, horseshoe shaped arena that looks like it was custom built for wrestling. Not a bad seat in the house. The Cincinnati Gardens with its vast history dating back to the Detroit territory days is a great old building as well. As far as stuff on TV goes, all the big arenas come across as pretty much identical to me.

Watched a bunch of random stuff yesterday ... WCW Starrcade 95, The Sharpes & Tom Steele vs. Hayes, Gordy, & Von Erich from World Class TV, and started part of a Coliseum Video. Then my wife took over the TV to watch the Olympics .... not cool.

Went to a local independent show over this past weekend. A fun but bizarre show in front of about 50 people inside of an old Ponderosa restaurant. I enjoyed Ricky Morton vs Tarek the Great, probably the best match of the whole show. Morton was great in interacting with the fans and trying to get them into the match. Necro Butcher teamed with 2 Tuff Tony in the main event against The Soul Shooters (Dru Skillz and Apollo Starr) and they had a fun brawl featuring ladders, chairs, and assorted other items. Undercard was odd and featured a dude with a prosthetic leg, and fat guy in a mask whose work was complete garbage, and a fine, typical four way cruiserweight match among other things.

I've used MLB.TV on my Roku as well and never once has there been an issue with the quality of the picture. I think the picture quality, honestly, is better than cable.

Watched an old episode of Shotgun from July of 1997 last night and saw two amazingly brutal squashes and thought I would share. First up was a squash from L.O.D. who just destroyed their hapless opponents. Hawk was especially brutal, nearly snapping one dude's neck on a neck breaker. The Doomsday Device nearly literally turned the other guy inside out. Animal was ... well, just an animal. Next was Kama just completely killing some scrawny 150-pound weakling. He bull-rushed him into the corner and completely over the top rope to the floor to start off the match. To finish, he used an Emerald Frosion type move to and just flattened the dude.

WWF House Show from Nassau Coliseum in July of 1989. Main event is Hillbilly Jim & Jim Duggan vs. Andre & Haku. Pretty dull match as nobody touched each other at all for the first ten minutes. Show had a fun opener with Iron Mike Sharpe against Tim Horner.

Personally, I liked the Kobashi/Sasaki match from the Tokyo Dome in '05. Kobashi's match from the same venue a year prior with Jun Akiyama is just a brutal, stiff fight. The Low-Ki vs. KENTA match from ROH Final Battle '05 is stiff as all hell.

I remember at the beginning of Ace Ventura, where Jim Carrey replaces a guy's real dog with a stuffed one, you see the guy sitting in a recliner watching TV and he's watching wrestling. Although you don't see the TV, you hear the announcer say something like "he's really favoring his knee there". I am terrible at explaining things so I hope that makes sense to at least someone other than me.

See if he can provide some insight about when the switchover happened from Coliseum Video to WWF Home Video. That's something I've always been interested in knowing about. Also, see if he can provide a brief history of the company. If this interview comes to pass, it's going to be amazing!

The collection my wife and I have of masters fills up a small bookcase and part of another larger one. As far as other DVDs, right now they are in mostly either paper sleeves in a storage cabinet with my wrestling VHS tape collection and other non-wrestling master DVDs. Its somewhat organized with everything banded together in stacks and labels on the the stack and I can somewhat find stuff. It's sort of aggravating though. Definitely going to work on getting those non-master DVDs organized. As far as match rankings and whatnot, all of those are on the blog I write at with Mando (http://neverhandover.blogspot.com)

The northern Cincinnati area has been a pretty interesting scene for a long time. The longest fed running in the area is the Northern Wrestling Federation (NWF) which I've never been a fan of. You've also got the Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) which is now on their fourth incarnation of the company and is running shows every few months in an old movie theater about 30 minutes north of Cincinnati in Middletown, Ohio. Speaking of Middletown, it, for some reason, seems to be a hotbed of wrestling activity right now with at least three feds running out of the aforementioned abandoned movie theater and another running out of an old Ponderosa restaurant next to some railroad tracks in a real shady part of downtown. I have some tales of four feds I've seen in person at venues that range from two shows at an opera house that's over 100 years old with asbestos hanging from the ceiling, to a show at a county fair featuring Greg Valentine in a completely hammered state (pun fully intended) with the ring set up next to the goat barn and the wrestlers getting into a shoot brawl by the bathrooms, and finally to a show at a dilapidated skating rink featuring Demolition, Brutus Beefcake, Greg Valentine (again), Sunny, and Dan Severn. Stories on these shows will begin later tonight ...

Hi everyone. Adam here and I'm from Cincinnati. Been a fan since the fall of 1995 when I stumbled upon Monday Night Raw on TV and saw Avatar of all people coming to the ring. I've been hooked ever since. I heard about this board from a fellow board member and decided to join up.